Sorrowland by Rivers Salomon is quite unique.

It is, I'd say, urban fantasy, set in a black community, which turns out to be a kind of religious cult.

The handles topics like racism and LGBTQIA discrimination, as well as other problems we face with society. I liked how the topics were just taken on straight forward, no big philosophical thoughts about it, but also not taken as a given. The main character just deals with what she has, and especially her attitude of "just keep going with what you can't change" while also never giving in to others expectations really worked well for me.

Contrasting living utterly wild in the woods, where she birthed twins all alone with coming back out to the "real world" was quite the reality check, and made for fascinating reading. I almost forgot this was not a fantasy world for a while, and then there's bikes and phones and trucks and I loved how it shook up my thinking.